Bill Bridge (L.D.Bridge M.B.E) who wrote the formative guide to Search and Rescue which was written in 1959 and published in 1960, called Mountain Search and Rescue in New Zealand. At the time Search and Rescue came under the the FMC/SAR committee (Federated Mountain Clubs Search and Rescue sub-committee) , with representitives throughout New Zealand. This book was the first comprehensive manual on the subject specific to New Zealand, and at this time the start of a formative SAR structure. In the book he acknowledges his formative time with the Tararua Tramping club.

He was a Chief Inspector, New Zealand Police, the past president of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand (1956-1958), past Chief Guide of the Tararua Tramping club of Wellington (1939-1951) . and a mountain club representative on the New Zealand Search and Rescue Organisation.

Regional Alpine Search and Rescue Exercise conducted in the Canterbury area sponsored by the Department of Civil Aviation, which combined NZ Police department, NZ Army, RNZAF, Federated Mountain clubs, AREC and Lands and Survey Forestry . It also used the Rescue Coordination Centre in Christchurch.

Cheif Inspector L D Bridge was one of the representatives from the Police and also a speaker, Roger Barrowclough was a demonstator, Trevor Puller one of the Face Rescue team on the exercise and Ivan McLachlan as a team member fro Alexandra on the SAREX.

","","","","","","","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Federated Mountain Clubs|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","History of Land Search and Rescue in New Zealand","","","Roger Bates|Roger Barrowclough","","","","","","","","","Search and Rescue|RNZAF| Police","",""
"201610","Audio","The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1","","Ivan McLachlan|Emma Milburn|Matthew Sheat","","","","","Part one of an interview and oral history recorded asking Ivan McLachlan about the early activity of Search and Rescue in the Central Otago region during the 1950's and 1960's, with early use of helicopters and the Face Rescue team. Ivan talks about a stretcher carry and recovery of an injured party in the Hollyford valley in conjunction with Davy Gunn. Ivan was not yet 20 at this stage. He talks about the early formation of the road in the Hollyford valley. Interviewed by Matt Sheat from the Dunedin Police SAR squad in February 2018","","","","","","-45.232815,169.37238100","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan|L D Bridge|Roger Barrowclough","","Mountain Search and Rescue|Outdoor safety man recieves award","","","Alexandra, Central Otago|Central Otago, New Zealand|Hollyford Valley, New Zealand","","Emma Milburn","","Search and Rescue| Police|Helicopter","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201614","Audio","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970","No","","The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1","","Ivan McLachlan|Emma Milburn|Matthew Sheat","","","20th March 2018;1970-01-01;1970-12-31","","Search on the Breakaway, Mt Aspiring in 1970 involving a party of five from the University of Otago . It was a recovery of a second missing party from a fall whilst mountaineering. The first party's body had been recovered the day before by SAR member Donald McTaggart and DOC ranger Mervyn Bourke from Wanaka. Ivan was in a search party of 4: Ivan McLachlan , Brian Cleugh, Don Morrison and Forrester Davidson . They were dropped off into the Aspiring Hut and the Boner glacier area. Ivan McLachlan is interviewed by Matthew Sheat of Dunedin LandSAR and the Dunedin Police SAR squad","SAROP","","","","","-44.3841666,168.72833330","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan","","","","","Aspiring Hut, Mt Aspiring National Park|Mt Aspiring National Park","","Emma Milburn|Matthew Sheat","","Mountaineering| Police","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201636","Audio","Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1|The history Search and Rescue in Otago 3 : Mt Aspiring, Bevan col and Sergeant Sam Cleland |The history of Search and Rescue in Otago part 4: Police and Advisors|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 5 : Radios and Pigeon Carriers|The history of Search and Rescue in Otago 6: Cliff rescue and the changes in Dunedin LandSAR","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","","20th March 2018;;","","Rescue and recovery on the Cascade face, Mt Aspiring National Park. A party of three with two fatalities. I of the party survived and went out for help. Search parties were deployed from Wanaka and stayed in the Police cells in Wanaka as accommodation. They drove to the end of the road at Raspberry hut and were picked up by helicopter, which was the first time a helicopter was used in the Otago region. Arnold Hubbard and possibly Don McTaggart were the other members of the search party. Ivan is speaking to Matthew Sheat from Dunedin LandSAR and the Police SAR squad on this recording ","","","","","","-44.3841666,168.72833330","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)|New Zealand National Mountain Safety Council","","","","","Ivan McLachlan","","","","","Aspiring Hut, Mt Aspiring National Park|Mt Aspiring National Park|Wanaka, New Zealand","","Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","Mountaineering|Helicopter|Search and Rescue| Police","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201643","Audio","The history of Search and Rescue in Otago part 4: Police and Advisors","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park|The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","","","","Ivan McLachlan talks to Matthew Sheat about Police involvement, search advisors, and field controllers. He also talks about the Dunedin Cliff Rescue team, and a major exercise in the Matukituki valley and to be dropped in by a Iroquois They were flown to Queenstown and the plane there was also damaged and unable to be flown. The ministerial plane, for the minister of tourism, and Ivan as SAR advisor asked to get university members back to Dunedin He also talks about as a field controller in the early 1960’s and an accident near Alexandra Roger and Trevor Pullar came up with a Police dog handler and located the girl from the accident ","SAROP|SAREX","","","","","-45.232815,169.37238100","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Trevor Pullar|Roger Barrowclough|Ivan McLachlan","","","","","Mt Aspiring National Park|Alexandra, Central Otago","","Emma Milburn","","Helicopter|Search and Rescue| Police","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201644","Audio","The history of Search and Rescue in Otago 3 : Mt Aspiring, Bevan col and Sergeant Sam Cleland ","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|The history of Search and Rescue in Otago part 4: Police and Advisors|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1|Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park|The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 5 : Radios and Pigeon Carriers","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","",";1966-01-10;1969-12-31","","This was a trip up to the Saddle,Bevan Col, Mt Aspiring late 1960’s. The original Colin Todd Hut slept 6 at the time. Sam Cleland Police SAR Sergeant at the time in Dunedin wanted to go climbing. In this recording Ivan Maclachlan describes how Sam Cleland has a fall/slide on the side of Bevan Col as he lost his ice axe and tried to use his crampons to arrest - he ended up with an injury to the leg when he slid 50-60 metres. He was then lowered down back off the face to Scotts bivvy - the river was too high to get him to Aspiring Hut, so Don McTaggert and another member got across at Pearl Flat to get out and get help - the next day a helicopter came in to get Sam. The helicopter was from Clyde with Russell Goetslab as the pilot. Ivan Is interviewed by Matthew Sheat(Dunedin LandSAR and Police SAR squad) ","SAROP|SAREX","","","","","-44.3841666,168.72833330","Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan","","","","","Aspiring Hut, Mt Aspiring National Park|Mt Aspiring National Park","","Emma Milburn","","Mountaineering|Search and Rescue| Police|Helicopter","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201645","Audio","The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 5 : Radios and Pigeon Carriers","No","","","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","","","","Ivan McLachlan talks to Matthew Sheat (Dunedin LandSAR and Police SAR squad) about a combined exercise with Dunedin and Otago SAR groups. The exercise was based in the French ridge bivvy area. They talk about equipment on exercises and how this has all changed over time including radio comms in the wilderness and the coverage but also the weight in carrying in this early comms equipment on searches. A pigeon was taken on this particular exercise - the pigeon was from Dunedin and he believe flew back home to this location. Ivan also talks about the use of a runner and the importance of having someone being able to run out as comms were way more unreliable at the time. Jerry Aspinell took the radio up by horse often. Also discussed is the use of the AREC personnel on the radios. ","SAREX","","","","","-44.2319659,168.83399310","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan","","","","","Mt Aspiring National Park","","Emma Milburn","","courier pigeons| Police|Mountaineering|Radio Communications|Search and Rescue","AREC ( Amateur Radio Emergency Communications)",""
"201646","Audio","The history of Search and Rescue in Otago 6: Cliff rescue and the changes in Dunedin LandSAR","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1|Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1|The history Search and Rescue in Otago 3 : Mt Aspiring, Bevan col and Sergeant Sam Cleland |The history of Search and Rescue in Otago part 4: Police and Advisors|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 5 : Radios and Pigeon Carriers","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","","","","Ivan and Matt talk about the changes in the Dunedin Cliff Rescue team over the years. Ivan McLachlan and Matt Sheat talk about the current status of the Dunedin Cliff rescue team, but also the current Dunedin general searcher teams, and how these two teams work together. Ivan talks about a rescue SAROP on the Peninsula, and also talks about the involvement of Red Cross, changes to search techniques . He also talks about mountaineering with Murray Bolt, and the change away from mountaineering . Also discussed is the change in the coordination from SAR advisor to Police, and the Police SAR squad, and how this Police role has changed. They talk about climber Bob Cunningham and also Bruce Clark ","","","","","","","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan","","Face Rescue Team in action|Below Cargill's Castle|Slope Rescue Team in action #2","","","Otago Peninsula","","Emma Milburn","","Search and Rescue|Mountaineering| Police|Climbing|Abseiling","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201647","Audio","Search in the Arawata area, Mt Aspiring National Park","No","","Breakaway search - Mt Aspiring 1970|Search on the Cascade face - party of three Mt Aspiring national park|The History of Search And Rescue in Otago - Part 1|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 2: Aspiring Memories 1|The history of Search and Rescue in Otago 3 : Mt Aspiring, Bevan col and Sergeant Sam Cleland |The history of Search and Rescue in Otago part 4: Police and Advisors|The History of Search and Rescue in Otago 5 : Radios and Pigeon Carriers|The history of Search and Rescue in Otago 6: Cliff rescue and the changes in Dunedin LandSAR","","Ivan McLachlan|Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn|Trevor Pullar","","",";1964-01-01;1964-03-28","","Matthew Sheat( Dunedin LandSAR and Police SAR Squad) talks to Ivan McLachlan about a search he was involved in the Arawata - this was in 1964 either February or March before helicopters were being used. Ivan and other searchers were notified of an accident of a climbing party of 2 from the saddle to the valley of the Arawata. The climbing party were at a steep bluff and were to lower down their packs, then the other would climb down but a pack bowled one members of the party off and he was injured. The uninjured party got to Arawata bivvy and then to Williamson flat (1000 acre flats), to the airstrip and box, where notes were left by deer cullers. He left a note there and headed back up the valley. A hunter found the note and contacted the police A 4 man team was sent in very early in the morning, and were flown in to Williamson flat 2 at a time and met the deer hunter at the airstrip and got a description to where the missing parties were. Roger Barrowclough and Paddy brought supplies in to the bivvy which were sausages. ","SAROP","","","","","-44.3841666,168.72833330","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","","Ivan McLachlan|Roger Barrowclough","","","","","","","Matthew Sheat|Emma Milburn","","Search and Rescue|Mountaineering| Police|Aviation","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201659","Manuscript","SAROP checklist pre national LandSAR organisation","No","Rogar Barrowclough","","","Emma Milburn",";1966-01-01;1976-12-31","","","","

Guide to the initiation of a Search and Rescue response, when groups and orgniations such as tramping clubs were contacted indiviually in response to a callout. This document is possibly early 1970's by references to the Face Rescue team, Forestry services and relating to early to the use of helicopters, by the emphasis on fixed wing aircraft and the reference to the cost of helicopters-

Face rescue manual outlining cable rescue techniques. Likely from around the late 1970's. Produced for the Otago face Rescue Team. Authored by Chris Knol. Original document held in the Roger Barrowclough collection.

","SAREX|SAROP","","","","","","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)|New Zealand Land Search and Rescue ","","Face Rescue Team Procedures 1969","","","Roger Barrowclough|Ivan McLachlan","","","","","","","","","Search and Rescue| Police|Mountaineering","Dunedin LandSAR Cliff Rescue Team",""
"201831","Manuscript","Search and rescue: an overview","No","","","","Emma Milburn|Trevor Pullar","","","","","","","","","","","","New Zealand Land Search and Rescue |Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|New Zealand National Mountain Safety Council","","","","","Trevor Pullar","","","","","","","","","Search and Rescue|Outdoor adventure| Police","",""
"201843","Newspaper cutting ","Demanding Bush drill is snow joke/ Stalwart back in squad","No","","","","Trevor Pullar|Emma Milburn","","","",";2004-09-21;","Two articles from the Otago Daily Times, on both Trevor Pullar and Sergeant Brain Benn The Maungatua SAREX took 2 years to plan by Trevor Pullar who was an advisor at the time. It was one of the largest exercises to held in Otago at tat time. The article on Brian Benn is about his return to the Dunedin Police SAR squad","","SAREX","","-45.8833333,170.1166667","","","Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)|Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|New Zealand Land Search and Rescue ","","","Recce turns to rehearsal for SAR Advisor","","Trevor Pullar|Brian Benn","","","","","Maungatua, Taieri plains","","","","Search and Rescue| Police|Helicopter","",""
"201844","Event","SAREX on Maungatua 2004","No","","","","","September 2004;;","","","","SAREX event on top of Maungatua organised by SAR advisor Trevor Pullar ","SAREX|SAROP","","","","-45.8833333,170.1166667","","Dunedin LandSAR (Search and Rescue)|New Zealand Land Search and Rescue |Dunedin Police SAR Squad (Search and Rescue)","","","","demanding Bush drill is snow joke/ Stalwart back in squad|Recce turns to rehearsal for SAR Advisor","Trevor Pullar","","","","","Maungatua, Taieri plains","","","","Search and Rescue| Police","",""